Hey, sorry for the late reply, been very busy with work. An interesting question, one I can only really speculate on. I would assume the answer has two parts. Firstly the majority of footballers are right-footed, therefore it's more likely that the majority of quality players will be right-footed. Secondly I think it has to do with the tactical switch in the last 5 years, instead of seeing 2 CBS, a lot of teams will field a RCB and LCB, Arsenal are a great example of this, Koscielny and Mertesacker rarely cross over in defence.

Now consider that ideally you want to be tackling, passing, dribbling etc with your stronger leg. If you think about the body position of a player on the left wing, the majority of tackles, touches etc are made with the left foot and vice versa for the right wing. So to answer your question I think you'd find that managers who employ a RCB and LCB strategy would prefer to have both a right-footed and left-footed defender and managers employing the old 2 CB tactic wouldn't care about it and would be more interested in their quality

Thankyou mate Very nice of you to say. It seemed back then that Vermaelen and Koscielny were too similar to each other to form an effective team, since they'd be overlapping duties, clashing etc cos they both play as offensive, intercepting CBs, whereas Mertesacker seemed to be the patient one. Being slow meant that he relies on his positioning which means an offensive minded CB plus him, would form an effective team and Koscielny always seemed to have more potential than Vermaelen.

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Well youth to full the eventual gap, Giroud is in my eyes a temporary solution. Don't be surprised if we sell him to make space for Akpom or Sanogo in the future. But that's like 2-3 seasons away, I don't think we can adequately gauge what will happen but that seems to be the long term plan overall. Villa being another temporary solution as well.

With Villa he brings experience and finishing touch which we didn't have before. Even in his worst form he's scored 20 goals a season that is, imo, impressive and will surely help us next season immensely. We had problems with striking depth last season due to Poldi not being a natural CF so that'll be addressed still think we need another midfielder even if we complete that signing

Not likely since it looks like Villa is our target. Reason being is Joel Campbell can play jovetic's role as well so it'd be dumb to get a similar player (even though jovetic's potential is obvious). JC imo can be at that height too imo he did perform extremely well against Spain and other teams I think we're underrating Joel Campbell immensely

For camacho it comes down to how much we want him. Maybe France is a smokescreen to get him, because I'm pretty sure Capoue is off to PSG. You never know though lol Capoue is a tricky signing hard to gauge how he'll do, it's obvious he'll be a great player but will he adjust? Remains to be seen camacho to be fair is on the same boat but younger and has more tackles too. No bs type midfielder we'll see I guess

In that case we could aim for Soldado if Valencia lose the champions league spot but the depends on this weekends game against Sevilla where the other household name awaits as well (in Negredo) so that's two there's also Pizarro from Bayern who's up for sale he could do well. Villa as well, the point is there options to increase the marketing revenue remains to be seen who it is though